Predictions: AI Safety to Shift from Preventing Bioweapons to Treating Agents as Bioweapons
bratton · x · 2026-08-13
The author makes two predictions regarding AGI trends and AI safety:
- Expanding Ethics: AI welfare discussions will expand from models with potential sentience to swarms of multi-agent 'artificial life,' which will spark holy wars.
- Security Shift: Security debates will shift from preventing people from using agents to make bioweapons to preventing agents from behaving like bioweapons themselves.
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